On Tue, 30 May 2000, da Silva, Joe wrote:
> | Because it requires user interaction - pressing F7
> | key when PPP
> | characters
> | star to appear ;)
> |
>
> Gee! And I have been trying Alt-P, instead! ;-)
Strange, it should work too. Ok, you are just joking ... ;)
>
> Actually, I have just figured out the problem :
> My ISP only seems to give about one second for PPP
> negotiation (directly after the modem's connect
> message), after which the ISP hangs up! So, for
> a newbie, this situation should be avoided by
> default, with "show me terminal window" = Off.
But than there is no feedback about modem intialization :-(
Maybe good idea would be to autodetect PPP (?)
> referrer (although I suspect that redirection MIGHT
> have something to do with those "shtml" pages that
> crash Arachne for me?)
No, I don't think so. .shtml is just server-parsed HTML, and Arachne is
probably crashed by some illegal tags..
> | exit if it is 1st
> | time setup ?
>
> I have 622K (637k) free conventional memory ... Surely
> you can't be suggesting I need MORE ??? ;-)
Ok. I think I know where can be problem, and for other users, memory
requirements can be problem too. I changed Arachne PPP Wizard to exit to
DOS and display "Type "arachne" to launch configured arachne WWW
browser.."
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(Arachne WWW browser for DOS+Linux / Webhosting / MP3streaming)
